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  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-student-housing-allowance.md",
  "title": "Greece's student housing allowance: who gets €1,500–€2,500 a year for a student's rent, and how to apply",
  "dek": "The yearly allowance goes to families of undergraduates who rent a home to study in another city. The 2025-26 application windows closed on 22 September 2026, and each university now checks and pays its own students.",
  "description": "Greece pays €1,500 to €2,500 a year towards a student's rent. Who qualifies, the €30,000 income limit, the route for parents abroad, and how to apply.",
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  "published": "2026-10-20T07:42:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Families with a child studying at a Greek university in another city",
        "effect": "If they applied by 22 September 2026, the 2025-26 allowance of €1,500, €2,000 or €2,500 is paid by the student's university once it has checked the application. [S1][S4]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Students whose parents live outside Greece",
        "effect": "The student applies in person and must give the university the income and property documents of both the student and the parents, for Greece and abroad, with foreign documents officially translated. [S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Applicants whose 2025-26 claim was refused",
        "effect": "They can file an objection with the university, on paper, within one month of being told of the refusal. [S1]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing can be applied for now: the 2025-26 windows closed on 22 September 2026. [S4] If you applied, send any documents your university asks for by the deadline it sets, and object within one month of any refusal. [S1] For the next academic year, the dates are normally set by ministry circular. [S8]"
  },
  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-23",
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "Ministry circular 86585/Ζ1 for 2025-26 issued [S1]",
        "date": "2026-06-29",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "First application window, 30 June to 31 July 2026 [S1]",
        "date": "2026-07-31",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Window reopened for those who missed it, 17 to 22 September 2026 [S4]",
        "date": "2026-09-22",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Universities check applications and pay their own students [S1][S10]",
        "when": "No national date; it varies by university",
        "done": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "deadlines": [],
  "glance": [
    "For 2025-26 the allowance is €1,500 a year, €2,000 for a student who shares the home or studies outside Attica and Thessaloniki, and €2,500 for both.",
    "Family income in the previous tax year must not exceed €30,000, plus €3,000 for each dependent child beyond the first, or €40,000 at three regional universities for students admitted from 2021-22.",
    "Applications for 2025-26 closed on 22 September 2026, and payment comes from each university, with no national payment date."
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Patras Events headlined the allowance as 'up to €2,500' for rent. [S14]",
      "finding": "The circular pays €2,500 only to a student at a university outside Attica and Thessaloniki who shares the home with another student; in Attica and Thessaloniki the most is €2,000. [S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The ministry's FAQ and the housing portal give a €40,000 income limit for students at the Democritus University of Thrace, the University of the Aegean and the University of Western Macedonia. [S3][S7]",
      "finding": "The 2025-26 circular does not mention the €40,000 limit or its legal basis; it refers only to the €3,000 increase per dependent child beyond the first. [S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The 2004 text of the law says the allowance is not seized, is paid without deductions and is not subject to tax. [S5]",
      "finding": "The 2025-26 circular says nothing about tax, and we did not see a consolidated current text of the law. [S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The national register of procedures gives 1 to 30 June each year for applications, unless a ministry circular sets other dates. [S8]",
      "finding": "The 2025-26 circular set 30 June to 31 July 2026, and the ministry reopened applications from 17 to 22 September 2026. [S1][S4]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "AlfaVita and Mononews reported Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki as saying on 22 October 2026 that the allowance budget was €50m in 2019. [S17][S18]",
      "finding": "The ministry's own funding table of 29 July 2026 gives €41,758,000 for 2019; €51,013,000 was the figure for 2020. [S15]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "When the ministry will issue the 2026-27 circular and open the next application window.",
    "When each university will pay the 2025-26 allowance; no national date has been given.",
    "Whether the tax-free wording in the 2004 text of law 3220/2004 survives unchanged in the consolidated law; the 2025-26 circular does not mention tax.",
    "Which legal provision sets the €40,000 limit for the three regional universities; the ministry's FAQ states the rule without citing it.",
    "Which year the minister's figures of about 64,000 applications and more than 40,000 recipients refer to, and how many applications were refused or are still being checked.",
    "When the planned public-private-partnership residences will open, and whether the target is 8,100 or 8,500 new beds.",
    "Whether the government plans to raise the €30,000 income limit."
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      "publisher": "Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (University of Macedonia), via Diavgeia",
      "title": "Πληρωμή στεγαστικού επιδόματος ακαδημαϊκού έτους 2024-2025 (ΑΔΑ 9ΟΤΖ469Β7Ι-ΤΞΖ)",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://diavgeia.gov.gr/doc/9ΟΤΖ469Β7Ι-ΤΞΖ",
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      "publisher": "Newmoney",
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      "url": "https://www.newmoney.gr/roh/palmos-oikonomias/ellada/zacharaki-afximeno-stegastiko-epidoma-nees-fititikes-esties-anakenisis-ke-ependisis-sti-sitisi/",
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      "title": "ΕΛΜΕ Πιερίας: Φοιτητικό επίδομα στέγασης – Αποκλείονται οικογένειες εκπαιδευτικών ή και δημοσίων υπαλλήλων",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.pierianews.gr/2026/10/16/elme-pierias-foititiko-epidoma-stegasis-apokleiontai-oikogeneies-ekpaideftikon-i-kai-dimosion-ypallilon/",
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      "publisher": "Patras Events",
      "title": "Φοιτητικό στεγαστικό επίδομα: Έως 2.500 ευρώ για ενοίκιο",
      "date": "2026-10-20",
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      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και Αθλητισμού (Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sport)",
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      "date": "2026-07-29",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.minedu.gov.gr/site/70568-29-07-26-auxemeno-kata-115-to-phoitetiko-stegastiko-epidoma-legei-ten-paraskeue-31-iouliou-e-prothesmia-ypoboles-aiteseon-akademaikou-etous-2025-2026",
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      "date": "2026-04-08",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.minedu.gov.gr/site/64723-08-04-26-isxyro-ependytiko-endiaferon-gia-tin-anegersi-foititikon-estion-1-100-klinon-sto-panepistimio-dytikis-attikis-meso-sdit",
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      "publisher": "AlfaVita",
      "title": "Σοφία Ζαχαράκη: Στα 90 εκατ. το φοιτητικό επίδομα – «Έρχονται 8.500 νέες κλίνες»",
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      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/ellada/politiki/s-zaxaraki-ayksimeno-stegastiko-epidoma-nees-foititikes-esties-kai-enisxysi-tis-sitisis-stiriksi-tou-dimosiou-panepistimiou/",
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    {
      "id": "amounts",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Section Γ (clearance and payment orders), page 6",
      "greek": "Αποκλειστικά στην περίπτωση δικαιούχου που φοιτά σε ΑΕΙ εκτός της Περιφέρειας Αττικής ή της Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Θεσσαλονίκης και συγκατοικεί με άλλο φοιτητή στην ίδια μισθωμένη κατοικία, το επίδομα ορίζεται στο ποσό των 2.500 ευρώ.",
      "translation": "Only in the case of a beneficiary who studies at a university outside the Attica Region or the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki and shares the same rented home with another student is the allowance set at €2,500."
    },
    {
      "id": "foreign-income",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Section Β2(a), family income, page 3",
      "greek": "Τα εισοδήματα της αλλοδαπής αθροίζονται με τυχόν εισοδήματα τα οποία δηλώνονται στην Ελλάδα και η κατοικία της αλλοδαπής λαμβάνεται υπόψη. Διευκρινίζεται ότι τα δικαιολογητικά της αλλοδαπής θα πρέπει να είναι επίσημα μεταφρασμένα με ευθύνη του δικαιούχου.",
      "translation": "Income from abroad is added to any income declared in Greece, and a home abroad is taken into account. It is made clear that documents from abroad must be officially translated, at the beneficiary's responsibility."
    },
    {
      "id": "window",
      "source": "S8",
      "where": "Application period",
      "greek": "από 1 έως 30 Ιουνίου εκάστου έτους, εκτός αν ορισθεί διαφορετικά με εγκύκλιο του Υπουργείου Παιδείας και Θρησκευμάτων.",
      "translation": "from 1 to 30 June each year, unless otherwise set by a circular of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs."
    }
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  "corrections": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-23",
      "kind": "update",
      "text": "Added the ministry's published funding figures (€41.8m in 2019, €90m in 2026), the minister's 22 October figures on applications and recipients, and the planned 8,500-bed residence programme. No dates, amounts or criteria have changed."
    }
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    "students",
    "universities",
    "housing",
    "benefits",
    "families abroad",
    "ministry of education"
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}